Writing
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Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
$26.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS … [more below]- Author: Dreyer, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0812995708
- Language: English
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How to Write a Book Proposal: The Insider’s Step-By-Step Guide to Proposals That Get You Published
$19.99 Read moreTHE ESSENTIAL RESOURCE FOR SELLING YOUR BOOK
If you want to publish a book, you must present it to agents and publishers with a knock-your-socks-off proposal. Whether you’re seeking a traditional pre- Author: Rein, Jody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1440348170
- Language: English
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The Art of Attention: A Poet’s Eye
$16.00 Add to cartThe Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discuss
- Series: Art Of… (Revell)
- Author: Revell, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974740
- Language: English
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Optic Subwoof
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Dougla… [more below]
- Author: Kearney, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1950268675
- Language: English
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Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing
$20.00 Read more“These are the rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story.”–Elmore Leonard
For aspiring w
- Author: Leonard, Elmore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0061451460
- Language: English
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The Art of Description: World Into Word
$16.00 Add to cartIt sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very b
- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 20 2010
- ISBN10: 1555975631
- Language: English
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Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction
$20.00 Read moreLearn how to write creative nonfiction alongside some of the brightest minds in the genre.
Inspired by Hippocampus Magazine’s annual conference, Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creativ
- Author: Pagliarulo, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 099942999X
- Language: English
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
$15.95 Add to cartMary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experien
- Author: Norris, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352145
- Language: English
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Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published
$17.95 Read moreOver 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for the
- Author: Rabiner, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324613
- Language: English
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Lifespan of a Fact
$19.99 Read moreHow negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually
- Author: D’Agata, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340732
- Language: English
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The Grim Reader: A Pharmacist’s Guide to Putting Your Characters in Peril
$25.00 Add to cartMany authors draw from headlines or movies rather than personal experience to write drug-related scenes, and the result may be more fiction than fact. So, how can you craft a convincing scene involvin
- Author: Seideman, Miffie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1684352142
- Language: English
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Burn After Writing (Floral 2.0)
$14.00 Read moreThe national bestseller.
Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in. “This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.”
–TikTok user camrynbanks- Author: Jones, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593539540
- Language: English
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
$14.95 Read moreChris Baty, founder of the wildly successful literary marathon known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), has completely revised and expanded his definitive handbook for extreme noveling. Chri… [more below]
- Series: Nanowrimo
- Author: Baty, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1452124779
- Language: English
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
$17.95 Read moreA dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiri- Author: Willder, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546164
- Language: English
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Burn After Writing (Spiders)
$14.00 Read moreThe national bestseller.
“This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.”
Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.
–TikTok user camrynbanks- Author: Jones, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593421795
- Language: English
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
$18.95 Read more“I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (pr teritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it – and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and r
- Series: Farnsworth’s Classical English #1
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1567925529
- Language: English
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Finna: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular–its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its inti… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593132459
- Language: English
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College Writing for Dummies
$24.99 Read moreTransform your next college essay into an A+ masterpiece
Taking a 100-level English composition course? Just doing your best to get ready for the rigors of college-level writing? Then it’s probably ti
- Author: Giampalmi, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1119895030
- Language: English
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How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers
$17.95 Read moreIn this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this col… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0811229718
- Language: English
